Dr. David McCormick
Psy.D. · Author · Bilingual Speaker

The integrated life.

Helping leaders, parents, and people of faith on the slow work of healing what's fragmented and building lives of meaning.

Dr. David McCormick
About

On the journey of becoming whole.

  • Education Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.)
  • Author Man in the Making
    B&H Publishing
  • Languages English & Spanish

I work with leaders, parents, and people of faith on the question that quietly shows up in midlife: am I building a life that will actually hold?

For two decades I've been trained — in psychology, consulting, and ministry contexts — to help people see the gap between the life they desire and the life they're actually living. That work has taken many forms: building diagnostics, executive coaching, speaking at churches and conferences, writing in two languages, and developing frameworks like the Whole Life Audit and the Enduring Legacy Framework through my practice at McCormick Connect.

What ties it all together is a simple conviction: the life that lasts isn't built in any one domain; it's built with intention and integration. This is the balance of work and family, between achievement and meaning, between what you say you believe and what your life actually testifies to. My work, on stage and on the page, is to help people examine those seams honestly and put them back together.

Speak & Teach

Talks, sermons, and workshops.

Available for keynotes, half- and full-day workshops, sermons, conference plenaries, executive offsites, and retreats — fully bilingual in English and Spanish, with audience experience across the United States and Latin America. Each talk adapts in length, audience, and faith register.

01

The Whole Life Audit

An honest look at the seven domains that determine the trajectory of a meaningful life — and the questions most successful people are quietly avoiding. Drawn from the diagnostic framework of the same name.

Keynote · Half-day Workshop · Plenary
02

Parenting for Resilience

What research and Scripture together teach us about raising children who can hold up under pressure — without breaking, without armoring, and without losing themselves.

Keynote · Sermon · Parenting Conference
03

Building an Enduring Legacy

Why the people we admire most aren't the ones who achieved the most, but the ones who built something that outlasted them — and the framework that helps families do the same.

Keynote · Half-day Workshop · Family Retreat
04

The Architecture of Lasting Success

For high-achievers winning by every external measure but quietly sensing something is off. A look at the structures, disciplines, and inner architecture that distinguish a success that lasts from one that quietly fractures under its own weight.

Keynote · Executive Offsite · Conference
05

Man in the Making

Drawn from the book of the same name. The pattern of a man becoming whole — formation, failure, and restoration through the seasons of faith, family, and vocation.

Workshop · Sermon · Men's Retreat
06

The Marriage Audit

A half-day diagnostic experience for couples building marriages they want to last — across communication, finances, faith, parenting, and the slow drift that no one names until it's late.

Half-day Workshop · Couples Retreat
07

Healing as a Practice

What psychology and Scripture together teach about the long work of restoration — for fragmented inner lives, weary marriages, and stories that haven't fully healed. Healing isn't a moment, and it isn't a metaphor — it's a practice that can be learned and lived.

Keynote · Sermon · Workshop · Retreat

* All talks and workshops are available in English and Spanish.

The Book
Hombre en Camino book cover
B&H Publishing · A book in Spanish

Hombre en Camino.

English: Man in the Making

Drawn from biblical narrative and decades of working with men in formation, Hombre en Camino is a meditation on the long road of becoming the man God intended — marked by failure and grace alike. Written for men who refuse to settle for either performance or passivity, the book offers a vision of integrated masculinity grounded in Scripture and shaped by lived experience.

Currently available in Spanish.

Recent Engagements

Where I've spoken.

Riverside Project Events
Houston, Texas
Verbo West Coast Conference
Gospel Outreach
San Francisco, California
Safe Place Church
New Orleans, Louisiana
ACH Summit
Santiago, Chile
Cambiando Horizontes
Trujillo, Peru
McCormick Connect
Workshops & Retreats
Ongoing
Writing

Recent essays.

Short pieces on the integrated life, parenting, vocation, and the work of becoming whole. New writing posted monthly.

What an Audit Reveals That a Conversation Cannot

On the difference between someone listening sympathetically to your life and someone helping you see it honestly.

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Parenting for Resilience, Not Performance

Why the children of high-achieving parents often struggle, and the formation we should be aiming for instead.

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The Seams of an Integrated Life

The places where successful lives quietly fragment — and a framework for putting them back together.

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